Discuss the need for nurses to be advocates for patients for whom they care.
Share your personal reflections on your service-learning experience.
Discuss how you can be a “world changer,” advocating for a vulnerable population in your community.
Registered nurses are in a very important position to serve their community and neighborhoods as world changers.
Nurses are considered by the public to be respected, trusted, and knowledgeable experts. Nurses critically think through actual or potential problems in their environment.
Working with vulnerable populations and professional organizations to find solutions to identifiable issues is an important role for the professional nurse. How can you plan to be a world changer and affect the health and health care of your community or neighborhood?